At
the Center for Developmental Epidemiology we are
working to advance the understanding of the origins,
course, and prevention of mental illness across the
course of life. Our longest-running study, the Great
Smoky Mountains Study, is a longitudinal
assessment of the development of psychiatric and
substance abuse
disorders and access to mental health care in a representative
sample of 1400 children and adolescents living in
the southeastern United States. Other studies include
the Duke Early Childhood Study and
the Preschool Health and Wellbeing
Study.

Web
table 1 for Prevalence and Development Of Psychiatric
Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence (2003), Archives
of General Psychiatry.

Web
table 2 for Prevalence and Development Of
Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
(2003), Archives
of General Psychiatry.

A
review of issues relevant to the creation of a measure
of disability in children based on the World
Health Organization's International Classification
of Functioning
and Disability (ICIDH-2).

Source
documentation for the manuscript “Service
costs of caring for adolescents with mental illness in
a rural community,
1993-2000.”

Thanks
for your help. On this site you can find information about the study
you are participating in, the people you will be meeting with, and
the research you will be helping to advance. Please contact us if
you have any questions.

A
major goal of our research has been the development, validation,
production, and dissemination of qualitative assessment measures
to further the advancement of mental health research. A suite
of interviews have been developed that employ a consistent
approach to the assessment of psychopathology in childhood,
adolescence, and young adulthood.